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After introducing the Fingerprint scanner to its new release, Samsung next plans to add IRIS scanning technology to its future smartphones to better improve the security of smartphones and for being more innovative too.

According to a report released by The Wall Street Journal, Samsung senior Vice President Rhee In-jong told analysts and investors at a forum in Hong Kong that the company is planning to incorporate biometric sensors such as eye scanners into more of its products as a part of its enterprise security software.

“We're looking at various types of biometric mechanisms and one of things that everybody is looking at is iris detection,” Rhee said.

The move is no doubt in order to bring an added layer of security to its devices. A Smartphone with an eye-scanning feature would most likely to be used in the front-facing camera to scan the unique patterns of the user’s iris and once the pattern get matched with the already stored user’s iris image in the phone, the user will get an access to its device.

Rhee heads the company’s Knox security platform which is a mobile security software designed to make Samsung phones more secure in the workplace. He said that out of the 87 million devices that come embedded with Samsung Knox, only 1.8 million are actively using the Knox, including banks, healthcare and financial companies as well.

The figure is just a fraction of the actually distributed devices and the company is looking forward to increase its number of clients by focusing on the various new authentication methods for having a wider distribution. So, the technology will likely to integrate with the company's Knox security platform.

“We, as a market leader, are following the market trend,” he said, emphasizing his point on eye scanning feature will more likely to be available for adoption in high-end phones first.

Apple first brought the fingerprint scanning technology into its iPhone 5, and after seven months, Samsung added the same biometric security feature to its new release Android based Samsung Galaxy S5 Smartphones. But, this time Samsung is ready to give a tough competition to Apple by offering more advanced biometric features.

With the company’s already existing security features such as login passwords, PINs, and gestures, the IRIS scanner feature will definitely provide high security parameters to Samsung smartphones.

HACKING EYEBALLS TO BYPASS IRIS SCANNER

Biometric information can't be stolen in a phishing attack, for instance, because the unique information is physically attached to the each user. But, like hackers found a way to fool the Apple as well as Galaxy S5's fingerprint scanner using a fake fingerprint, the IRIS scanners can also be fooled.

In 2012, At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, a researcher demonstrated that how an attacker can create create the spoofed template of IRIS of a real person, that could be used to fool the scanners.

Do you think Samsung will be able to deliver a hack-proof eyes iris scanner system in its next Galaxy smartphone?

Samsung Galaxy S5 Fingerprint feature promises an extra layer of security for your smartphone, which also lets you make payments through PayPal. But does it really secure?

Just three days after the launch of the Galaxy S5, Security researchers have successfully managed to hack Galaxy S5 Fingerprint sensor using a similar method that was used to spoof the Touch ID sensor on the iPhone 5S last year.

FOOLING FINGERPRINT SENSOR

SRLabs researchers recently uploaded a YouTube video, demonstrated how they were able to bypass the fingerprint authentication mechanism to gain unauthorized access just by using a lifted fingerprint with wood-glue based dummy finger.

The S5 fingerprint scanner allows multiple incorrect attempts without requiring a password, so an attacker could potentially keep trying multiple spoofed fingerprints until the correct match.

PAYPAL USERS AT RISK
Samsung Galaxy S5 users can also transfer money to other PayPal users just by swiping their finger on the sensor, but this hack now allows hackers to access your PayPal account and linked bank accounts without ever having to enter a password.

In addition, If you restart your Apple’s iPhone 5S, it requires you to enter a passcode, before you can use your fingerprint as a way to unlock the phone, but Samsung has no such security method in place at this time.

No doubt, one need to have physical access of your device in order to exploit this flaw, so if your phone is stolen, a thief can access anything on your device.

Hack once again showed that unlocking a device with Fingerprint is convenient, but not secure that the passcode security.

After the huge success of Samsung galaxy S3, Samsung Galaxy S4 and Samsung Tablets, the world’s most successful Android manufacturer is going to reveal its brand new Smartphone Samsung Galaxy S5 next week at Mobile World.

Early in 2014, rumors suggested that Samsung Galaxy S5 will have Fingerprint Scanning technology like iPhone 5s.

Fingerprint scanners are slowly becoming a popular feature for high-end Smartphones, and just yesterday the rumors turned out to be true and SamMobile has confirmed that Samsung Galaxy S5 device will come with a Biometric sensor capable of taking Fingerprint scans to unlock the Smartphone device.

How it will work?

Samsung Galaxy S5 fingerprint sensor will be implemented into the Galaxy S5’s Home button.

The sensor itself works in a swipe manner, which means that you would need to swipe the entire pad of your finger, from base to tip, across the home key to register your fingerprint properly.

Unlike Apple's iPhone 5s Touch ID scanner, Samsung Galaxy S5 will require you to swipe your finger across the home button while keeping it flat.

Also, you would need to keep your finger flat against the home key and swipe at a moderate speed or else it won’t recognize your fingerprint.

Samsung Galaxy S5 Security features:

You can feed total 8 fingerprints in Galaxy S5 and assign each fingerprint a different task or use it as an app shortcut, but at least 1 fingerprint must be used to unlock the device.

Samsung has also introduced a new Personal Folder and Private Mode, where user will be able to hide apps and content that can only be accessed by a traditional password or PIN or the assigned fingerprint.

Users will also be able to sign in into websites and their Samsung accounts using the fingerprint sensor and while scanning fingerprints, the device will display an image of the fingerprint in real time on the screen.

Samsung Galaxy S5 Processor: Device will come in two versions to boost mobile, one with an Exynos 6 processor and one with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processor.

Sounds like an Interesting concept? New technology always comes with new threats, and then the word 'HACKING' comes into play. As Hackers always find their way out, and it's easy for them to develop new exploits for cracking any security parameters.

The German hackers who cracked the Apple's iPhone fingerprint scanner last year, said "Biometrics is fundamentally a technology designed for oppression and control, not for securing everyday device access."

So it would be estimated that Galaxy S5 Fingerprint scanners could also be hacked in the near future after its official release. What do you think of fingerprint sensors?